CAIRO, Jan 30 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia is expected to give Egypt up to $4 billion in additional aid in the form of central bank deposits and petroleum products, state-run Al Ahram newspaper reported on Thursday. Citing an unnamed ministerial source, the newspaper said the package would be worked out during a visit next week to the kingdom by Egypt's interim prime minister Hazem el-Beblawi.

In a bold plan unveiled Wednesday, the University of Notre Dame said it will meet several athletic and academic space needs by adding three buildings connected to its iconic football stadium. The multiuse buildings, which will rise slightly above the stadium, will include classrooms, a career center, dining hall, event spaces, recreational sports facilities, and a digital media center - all integrated with new, premium stadium seating and club space for football fans. The $400 million plan - the largest building project in the university's 172-year history - will turn the area around the stadium, now used solely for about seven home football games a year, into a central place for academic and student life.

The Chicago Bears have added another assistant coach to their defensive staff, announcing the hiring of Clint Hurtt on Saturday morning. Hurtt will be an assistant defensive line coach and is the third new addition to Marc Trestman's staff this week. Earlier in the week, the Bears finalized the hirings of Paul Pasqualoni as their new defensive line coach and Reggie Herring as their new linebackers coach. Pasqualoni and Herring replaced fired coaches Mike Phair and Tim Tibesar respectively, two of the assistants let go after the Bears finished the season as the NFL's third-worst defense, allowing a franchise record 6,313 yards.

Frankfort is preparing to seek contractors for its $5 million village hall expansion. "It's an exciting time. We're getting ready to bid two portions of our village hall addition," Village Administrator Jerry Ducay said during the Jan. 21 village board meeting. "As soon as next week you may see a notice in the newspaper for those bids, which will be due in February. " Frankfort is looking for a firm to excavate the land at 500 W. Nebraska St., and the village needs a general contractor to oversee construction, which will put a 9,900-square-foot western addition to the Village Administration Building.

Telling him he had “pulled off the corruption trifecta,” a federal judge Monday sentenced disgraced former Chicago Ald. Ambrosio Medrano to 2 1/2 years in prison on top of the 10 1/2 - year term he received last week for a separate bribery conviction. The sentence handed down by U.S. District Judge John Tharp means that Medrano faces a combined 13 years behind bars, making it one of the longest prison terms ever for a defendant convicted in a public corruption case in Illinois.

New sexual assault and robbery charges stemming from two additional incidents have been filed against a 30-year-old man already in jail in similar attacks late last month near Midway Airport and on the Northwest Side, police announced today. James Whiteside, of the 600 block of West Deming Street on the North Side, was charged with aggravated criminal sexual assault with a weapon, armed robbery, aggravated vehicular hijacking, vehicular invasion, attempted aggravated criminal sexual assault with a weapon, aggravated battery of a child under the age of 13, and armed robbery, according to a statement from police News Affairs.

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's systemically important "Big Four" banks will be required to set aside an extra 1 percent of equity capital to protect against the kind of turmoil seen during the global financial crisis under new regulations announced on Monday. Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Ltd , Commonwealth Bank of Australia , National Australia Bank Ltd and Westpac Banking Corp already hold significant capital buffers and are expected to have sufficient reserves set aside to meet the extra requirements by the January 2016 deadline, the Australian Prudential Regulatory Authority said.